MIXING & EFFECTS
This section covers the I/O routing panel in the Mixer window.
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The audio input/output panel (12) contains the I/O routing options and the recording switch.
The basic functionality of all mixer tracks lays in the concept of taking an input audio signal from one or more sources, processing it and then outputting the processed audio to another location.
By default, all insert tracks take the instruments assigned to them for input signal and output to the master track (and may output to one or more send tracks if set so). The send tracks can take the signal from the insert tracks and output to the master track. Finally, the master track outputs the resulting mixed signal to the audio card of your PC.
This scheme is easy to understand and is enough for most of the mixing tasks you will perform while creating simple melodies and loops. However, for bigger projects you may need to create more complex mixing chains, with groups and subgroups of mixer tracks. The audio input (N) and output (O) routing settings allow for such scenarios, so you can, for example, assign the output of one insert track to another one.
Users who use ASIO drivers for audio output can route the tracks to the various ASIO outputs their audio card provides. These can be outputs to the individual channels of a 5.1 surround system, hardware mp3 compressors, disk streaming outputs etc. Additional outputs appear also when using the FL Studio multi output VSTi connection.
Most of the ASIO drivers provide ASIO inputs for microphone, line in etc. as well. You can route such inputs to the mixer tracks. Note that the ASIO inputs will not replace but mix together with any input audio the track receives from other sources (instruments, other tracks etc.).
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The disk button (P) prepares a track for disk recording (to a *.WAV file).